On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, David.Aubril@ac-nantes.fr wrote:

> Hi everyone.
> I am trying to figure out how pkg_chk works. It seems that it cannot 
> work with binary packages unless it finds a summary file in the 
> repository where the packages are. Is it planned to put such a file with 
> netbsd's 2006Q2 packages ? Am I right ? Or is there another way to 
> upgrade packages without building everything again ? I am preparing to 
> upgrade 2006Q1 packages to 2006Q2 packages on an old pc and I would like 
> to find a simple way to do that.
> Does somebody have any idea ?

 	pkg_chk will read each binary package to determine their details.
 	It _can_ use a pkg_summary.gz file, which will speed things up
 	considerably, but does not need it.

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